Two phosphine-based reagents can be used to prepare aromatic acid chlorides in the presence of either primary or secondary amines. This approach enables the living polycondensation of aromatic amino acids under mild conditions and can be used to make block copolymers as well as helical aromatic amide foldamers.
- Subhajit Pal
- Dinh Phuong Trinh Nguyen
- Andreas F. M. Kilbinger
